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Concise History of Canadian Painting

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ISBN-10: 019540663X

ISBN-13: 9780195406634

Edition: 2nd (Revised)

Authors: Dennis Reid

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First published in 1973, this book quickly became an indispensable short history of Canadian painting. This new edition has been extensively revised and expanded to reflect new information and new interpretations. The first edition studied Canadian painting through 1965, masterfully combining visual description, anecdotes, and aesthetic evaluation with full accounts of the careers of most of the leading Canadian painters, beginning in the French colonial period. The second edition covers events through 1980, with a new long chapter covering the crucial intervening fifteen years that saw developing in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms, and an apparent waning of interest in…    
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List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/5/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Irene Tsatsos is Director of Gallery Programs at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. From 1997 to 2005, Tsatsos was Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), where she mounted nearly fifty exhibitions, including the much-heralded retrospective of performance artist Yvonne Rainer, Chris Burden's Small Skyscraper project, and David Askevold's 2001 solo exhibition New Pictures and Older Videos. Prior to moving to California, Tsatsos worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art as Exhibition Coordinator of the 1997 Whitney Biennial and held leadership positions at the Arts Club of Chicago and N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.Dennis Reid is a…